O'Shares Completes First Year Anniversary with Strong Performance and Asset Growth

BOSTON, Aug. 30, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The O'Shares family of large cap dividend ETFs have all recently completed a successful first year since listing on the NYSE. All five O'Shares ETFs (OUSA, OEUR, OEUH, OASI & OAPH) have outperformed their relevant benchmark, providing greater total return, more yield and generally lower volatility in their first year. Performance of all five ETFs shows the benefits of the index strategies that were developed for O'Shares by FTSE Russell, with rules for selecting stocks for Quality, Lower Volatility and Dividend Yield.

Kevin O'Leary, Chairman of O'Shares ETF Investments, believes that ETFs are evolving, as new rules-based ETFs offer investors choices to own alongside or instead of market-cap weighted ETFs. "O'Shares is building a very good track record and a great set of quality ETFs for long-term wealth management. That's driving our AUM growth and it's the reason we're attracting a high caliber of advisors and institutional investors. Each of these ETFs is part of my core portfolio of large-cap equities, with OUSA for the U.S., OEUR for Europe in local currency, OEUH for Europe with currency hedged to U.S. dollars, OASI for Asia Pacific in local currency and OAPH for Asia Pacific with currency hedged to U.S. dollars," said Mr. O'Leary, who is well-known as an investor on ABC's Shark Tank and a contributor to CNBC.

Connor O'Brien, CEO of O'Shares ETF Investments, added, "Performance of O'Shares ETFs is driven by our rules-based approach, emphasizing Quality, Low Volatility and Yield, and excluding companies that do not meet the standards. There are many strong global companies in Europe and Asia Pacific, and we applied the same rules used with OUSA to build OEUR and OASI. As a result, our rules-based (multi-factor) ETFs hold conservative, diversified portfolios that have outperformed the market and have provided an attractive yield. In the ETF industry, multi-factor ETFs are the fastest growing, as advisors and institutions seek better risk-adjusted returns than generic market-cap weighted ETFs." 

1. Performance shown is Market Value. Source: Bloomberg. Data for year ended 07/13/16 for OUSA, 08/18/2016 for OEUR and OASI, 08/24/2016 for OEUH and OAPH. Benchmark for OUSA is the S&P 500, benchmark for OEUR is the STOXX EUROPE 600 USD Total Return Index, benchmark for OEUH is the STOXX EUROPE 600 Local Index, benchmark for OASI is MSCI AC ASIA PACIFIC USD Index, benchmark for OAPH is the MSCI Asia Pacific Local Index. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results.

O'Shares Investments       
O'Shares is focused on providing quality ETFs for long-term wealth management. O'Shares ETFs use the FTSE Russell Quality/Volatility/Yield rules-based indexes for investing in large cap dividend paying equities. These indexes provide a rules-based approach for investing in the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific regions, and seek more yield, less risk and strong long-term investment performance. O'Shares ETFs are designed to be core investment holdings, providing cost efficient access to portfolios of large-cap and mid-cap high quality, low volatility, dividend paying companies. oshares.com.

FTSE Russell
FTSE Russell is a global leader in index benchmarking and analytics, positioned to develop and offer indexing solutions for investors worldwide. Leading asset owners, asset managers, ETF providers and investment banks use FTSE Russell indexes to benchmark their investment performance and create ETFs, institutional separate accounts and index-based derivatives. FTSE Russell is wholly owned by London Stock Exchange Group. ftserussell.com.

2. One year performance for O'Shares ETFs not available as of June 30, 2016. OUSA launched on July 14, 2015, OEUR and OASI launched on August 19, 2015, OEUH and OAPH launched on August 28, 2015.               

NAV: The dollar value of a single share, based on the value of the underlying assets of the Fund minus its liabilities, divided by the number of shares outstanding. Calculated at the end of each business day.           
Market Price returns are based upon the midpoint of the bid/ask spread at 4:00PM Eastern time (when NAV is normally determined), and do not represent the returns you would receive if you traded shares at other times.

The Fund's investment adviser, FFCM LLC ("Adviser"), has agreed to reimburse the Fund in an amount equal to the Fund's allocable portion of the compensation and expenses of the Independent Trustees (including Independent Trustee counsel fees) until at least July 10, 2018. Performance data quoted represents past performance and is no guarantee results. Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance data quoted. Investment return and principal value will fluctuate so that an investor's shares, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than original cost. Returns less than one year are not annualized. For most recent month end performance, please visit www.oshares.com.

For Further Information:

Kevin Beadles
kbeadles@oshares.com

Before you invest in O'Shares Investments Funds, please refer to the prospectus for important information about the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. To obtain a prospectus containing this and other important information, please visit www.oshares.com to view or download a prospectus online. Read the prospectus carefully before you invest. There are risks involved with investing including the possible loss of principal.

Concentration in a particular industry or sector will subject the Fund to loss due to adverse occurrences that may affect that industry or sector. The Fund may use derivatives which may involve risks different from, or greater than, those associated with more traditional investments. The Fund's emphasis on dividend-paying stocks involves the risk that such stocks may fall out of favor with investors and underperform the market. Also, a company may reduce or eliminate its dividend after a Fund's purchase of such a company's securities. Returns on investments in foreign securities could be more volatile than, or trail the returns on, investments in U.S. securities. Exposures to foreign securities entail special risks, including political, diplomatic, economic, foreign market and trading risks. In addition, unless perfectly hedged, the Fund's investments in securities denominated in other currencies could decline due to changes in local currency relative to the value of the U.S. dollar, which may affect the Fund's returns. The Fund's hedging strategies may not be successful, and even if they are successful, the Fund's exposure to foreign currency fluctuations is not expected to be fully hedged at all times. See the prospectus for specific risks regarding the Fund.

Past performance does not guarantee future results. Shares are bought and sold at market price (not NAV), are not individually redeemable, and owners of the Shares may acquire those Shares from the Funds and tender those Shares for redemption to the Funds in Creation Unit aggregations only, consisting of 50,000 Shares. Brokerage commissions will reduce returns.

O'Shares Investments Funds are distributed by Foreside Fund Services, LLC. Foreside Fund Services, LLC is not affiliated with O'Shares Investments or any of its affiliates.

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